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Taking Returns into Your Own Hands with Self-Service

Retail TouchPoints

For some, however, this trade-off comes at the price of navigating frustrating and, at times, confusing return policies. With return policies differing from brand to brand, it can be exhausting for customers to keep track and often leads to more hassle than reward.

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Retention and loyalty – how to grow when the market is down

Inside Retail

Retailers have also been hit with rising input costs eroding margins, leaving many merchandise, marketing and commerce functions wondering how they are going to achieve more with less. Many loyalty programs are ineffective and their returns are unknown at best, and margin erosive at worst.

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Rethinking Returns: Innovative Strategies for Retailers to Drive Growth in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Long viewed as a necessary evil, the retail returns process is emerging as an unexpected avenue for growth and customer engagement. In the rapidly expanding ecommerce market, projected to reach $3 billion in 2023, a significant 20% to 30% of online purchases end up being returned.

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How bonuses and incentives help customer retention 

365 Retail

What is customer retention? Customer retention refers to a company’s capacity to convert purchasers into repeat customers, preventing them from purchasing from a rival. Why is customer retention crucial for businesses?

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Planning to sell online in the US? Here are some tactics to ensure success

Inside Retail

Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns , shares with Inside Retail advice on getting started in the US market, some tips on cross-border shipping and logistics – including managing returns in a way that builds customer loyalty – and how to drive repeat business.

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One in 10: How retailers can navigate the looming threat of “returns fraud”

Inside Retail

Returns present a complex challenge for retailers of all sizes, not only contributing to their carbon footprint, but also eroding their profit due to the cost of managing and paying for reverse logistics and, in some cases, leading to fraud. Meanwhile, the use of returns by customers continues to grow in popularity.

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Five KPIs That Tell you Everything About Your Returns Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

The customer journey starts off linear, but it should end in a cycle of repurchasing. Getting the returns experience right is one of the most critical parts of that cycle — 95% of shoppers say that how returns are handled affects their decision of whether to purchase again. Return Rate and Negative Reviews.